Chapter Twenty-One
Joel blinked several times at Cody, like each time his eyes opened, he hoped Cody wouldn’t be there, that he and his nonsense would have been teleported somewhere far, far away. Reggie rubbed his palms into his eyes so hard Cody thought he might be trying to make himself go blind. Sam silently sharpened her blade, which may have been the most disconcerting reaction of them all.
“So…?” Cody felt a compulsive need to fill the awkward silence. “Are we mulling it over or…?”
“Mulling it over?” Joel said, his voice exploding out of him. “Are you shitting me? We are certainly not mulling it over. I’ve never wanted to mull anything less. I can’t believe we’re even talking about this.”
Reggie dropped his hands and blinked through the field of bright spots dancing across his v
